
Foreign language versions of his works have also been published by French publishers.ġ. His artworks have a high reputation in Japan and abroad. In recent years, he has energetically engaged in collecting resources and depicting the history of Japanese gay erotic art that has emerged since the end of the 1950s. He is a gay art specialist who has announced himself to be gay, something that’s quite rare in Japan. After experience as an art director and a graphic designer, he started a serialization of gay manga and a novel in the magazine Sabu. He completed a graphic design course at Tama art university.

Gengoroh Tagame (1964 – ) is a gay cartoonist, erotic artist and a leader of Japanese gay art.
